Mohammad Montazeri

Mohammad Montazeri (1944-28 June 1981) was one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of Iran. Montazeri was killed by the MEK terrorist group in the Hafte Tir bombing of 1981.

Biography
Mohammad Montazeri was born in Najafabad, Iran in 1944, the oldest son of Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri. After the exile of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1963, the young imam Montazeri led opposition to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's government, and he lived in Iraq and Afghanistan after being tortured and released from prison in 1968. Montazeri received training in Fatah camps in Lebanon and fought with the PLO and other Palestinian groups in the country against Israel. In 1978, Montazeri and 200 armed men took over the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, and he would become one of the first proponents of the creation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. In December 1979, Montazeri and the IRGC fought in the Lebanese Civil War, and he returned to Tehran to lead a special unit. In March 1980, he became a member of the First Majlis as an Islamic Republican Party member, and he argued that Iran should play more of a role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict and that Abolhassan Banisadr's supporters should be executed. On 28 June 1981, he was killed in the Hafte Tir bombing, one of 73 high-ranking victims.